Hobo nickle

Dustbowl / graet depression aprox 7 million American starved to death. Many many oroginal homestead families were completely displaced as far as Canada where land settlers grants were still available at that time.

Hobo nickles were hand carved "tramp art" or folk art coins mostly pickles carved by the Displaced Shawnee homesteaders. They would pay a farmers wife or widow a carved nickle as payment or a sweet heart token, for food lodging and a job.

That's worth a Hobo nickle.

by Modern Women December 19, 2025

hobo nickels

Items owned by a homeless person, usually so worthless or used they're valued at a nickel no more.

Craig just bought out a new storage locker last Friday. Too bad it had nothing but hobo nickels, now he has to dump run.

by DomesticFlatulence September 11, 2021

hobonickel

The official currency of the homeless, created by DallasSoup, a former homeless man himself.

That guy paid me 30 hobonickel for a toe sucking. Made out like a bandit.

by ThroatTearer December 27, 2020